Overview
- Reports on Friday said Apple eliminated just over 200 positions across its Vision Pro and Siri/software groups, splitting roughly half from the Vision Pro organization and half from Siri and related software teams.
- About 100 Vision Pro roles were removed, with Apple largely shutting an internal Vision Pro gaming team and trimming the expensive immersive‑video production unit that has required multi‑million dollar episodes for a small user base.
- Roughly 100 roles were cut in Siri and the Intelligent Systems Experience as Apple restructures the assistant around a new AI architecture that needs different engineering skills, with the company creating new positions aligned to the new stack.
- Apple confirmed it is realigning teams, said it will create new roles and offer affected employees chances to apply elsewhere in the company, and told staff that visionOS and Vision Pro are not being abandoned even as priorities shift.
- The cuts free engineering and budget to pursue lighter, camera‑centric smart glasses that multiple reports say Apple is targeting to show at WWDC 2027, and leave follow‑on Vision Pro hardware unlikely before 2028 according to current reporting.